I’m at a loss. Any ideas on why Bob Beckel, co-host of The Five, would explain away nudists by assuming they “were gang-banged” or “had sexual assault on them” as children?

Beckel usually let’s fly with some real winners when he starts shooting from the hip. It does get him into some embarrassing situations. For instance, this episode where he had the cast and crew in stitches trying to come up with the past tense for the word ‘tweet’. For those not willing to click on the link, the word rhymed with ‘swat’.

During a Fox News segment on the ongoing fight over whether nudists should be allowed to walk the streets of San Francisco, The Five co-host Bob Beckel gave a rather colorful explanation for why people become nudists in their adult life.

The remarks came after co-host Dana Perino asked the table: “What happened to these people as children that they don’t want to wear any clothes?”

Never mind the fact that had the man sitting directly to his left, Eric Bolling, ever started a sentence with the words ‘The Black Dude’, liberals would have immediately called for his firing. Beckel will slide on that, no doubt.

The crew tried their best to save the segment, but Beckel couldn’t quite recover.